I am a medical anthropologist and Senior Research Scholar at the Center for Biomedical Ethics at Stanford. For more information about my work, see the other sections of the website. News is posted below. (The tag line above is shamelessly adapted from Hendrik Hertzberg's blog.)
by Katrina on October 21, 2009
Whoa it has been a very long time since I posted anything. I wondered whether to renew the domain — not that anyone was bugging me for it — but decided to. And yet I still didn’t post. Why? Well in March I learned to paraglide and completely fell in love with it. I spent the last 6 months flying all over California, and even in France, Switzerland, and Spain. I cannot remember the last time I was so taken with something. Well, yes I can — my chickens. (And boy do I love them). So it’s been a really blissful year.
October marks 3 years since I was diagnosed with breast cancer and I decided it was finally time to do the revision surgery I should have done years ago. So here I am less than a week out and back to work. So much easier than my last surgery, which was really an ass-kicker.
So I guess life very much goes on after cancer. It feels really good…
by Katrina on February 9, 2009
I’ll be on Weekday on KUOW in Seattle on February 10, 2009 at 9am with the wonderful Jane Goto. If you are not local, I htink you can listen via the web.
by Katrina on January 27, 2009
I taped a great interview with Bob Barrett for The Health Show, a WAMC program that airs on a bunch of public radio affiliates around the country. It airs locally (i.e., Albany, NY) on Thursday, January 29th at 3PM EST and again Sunday, February 1 at 6:30PM EST. It goes nationally to the affiliates on Friday, January 30th and will also be posted on The Health Show website Friday.
by Katrina on December 12, 2008
Ellen Feder and I have a new piece out in The Lancet tomorrow called “Naming the Problem: Disorders and their Meanings,” in which we talk a bit more about the harms that can result from the medical naming of conditions. You can read it here.
by Katrina on December 11, 2008
I just taped an episode of Bay Area People with the marvelous Rosy Chu. It’ll air on KTVU at 6:30am this Saturday, December 13, 2008. If you’re not an early riser, it’ll also be available for free on Comcast on Demand. I’ll try to put a link to it somehow.
I’ll also be on Against the Grain with C.S. Song on December 22, 2008. There are a few ways to listen:
• On the Radio: Noon [...] Continue Reading…
by Katrina on November 13, 2008
The little yellow tab on Amazon has gone from “pre-order” to “add to basket,” which means the books are shipping! And I’ve already heard from folks they have gotten their copies. Writing this book took much longer than I expected and some days I wasn’t sure the book would ever come out, so this is pretty darn thrilling. I have a few upcoming talks. The first one is in person and the second on [...] Continue Reading…
by Katrina on November 12, 2008
Erin Digitale did a great job writing a short story about Fixing Sex that is accompanied by a podcast interview with the fantastic Paul Costello, executive director of Communication & Public Affairs at the Stanford University School of Medicine. Enjoy!
by Katrina on October 9, 2008
Another review of Fixing Sex in from Feminist Review.
by Katrina on September 23, 2008
There’s been no shortage of debate about the change in nomenclature for intersex conditions recommended in the 2006 Consensus Statement. The debate over the new term— “disorders of sex development”—has proven incredibly heated because it is deeply, achingly personal, centering on who gets to define, determine, and label the truth of one’s life.
Ellen Feder and I have a commentary in the latest Hastings Center Report where we discuss why the issue has been polarizing [...] Continue Reading…
by Katrina on September 8, 2008
The first review is in and it’s from Bitch Magazine. I am thrilled to bits they decided to review it and really pleased that Summer Wood, the reviewer, noted that “Karkazis never loses sight of the authentic lived experiences of intersexed people and their families. . . . Fixing Sex . . . offers a compassionately written discussion of interest to anyone concerned with gender and sexuality, health activism, and human rights.” Really, that [...] Continue Reading…
Whoa it has been a very long time since I posted anything. I wondered whether to renew the domain — not that anyone was bugging me for it — but decided to. And yet I still didn’t post. Why? Well in March I learned to paraglide and completely fell in love with it. I spent the last 6 months flying all over California, and even in France, Switzerland, and Spain. I cannot remember the last time I was so taken with something. Well, yes I can — my chickens. (And boy do I love them). So it’s been a really blissful year.
